“Mary Rita’s experience working in a variety of settings, including in practice, administration, academia and consultancy will be a great asset to our organization as we continue to work on solving Oregon’s nursing shortage,” said Joan Caley, board president.

State Sen. Betsy Johnson rallied more than 250 people during the Oregon Center for Nursing “Advocacy, Innovation, Solutions” fundraising breakfast Oct. 6 at the Oregon Zoo in Portland.

The event raised more than $95,000 to support OCN’s mission to provide the leadership to solve the nursing shortage in Oregon.

“We are extremely grateful to all who attended and our sponsors,” said Kris Campbell, RN, PhD, OCN executive director. “Without their support, our work to help create nursing leaders, diversify the nursing work force and to find solutions to problems that create nursing shortages would not be possible.”

The Regence Foundation announced today
$246,500 in grants for four Northwest nonprofits: HealthMatters of Central
Oregon, WithinReach, Critical Access Hospital Network and Northwest
Organization of Nurse Executives. The grants all support nonprofit programs
with innovative plans to improve quality of care and increase access to care.